Just the two of us… – from Kenna Brah
Just me and Scantron braved the gloom and shared great 2nd F after making laps around the track. COT 0
The Uptowner
Burpees, Bear Crawls, and Box Cutters…Oh My! – from Triple Shift
As a plug to the upcoming book study on Tuesdays (PJ’s Coffee on Canal Blvd 6:45am – 7:30am) in 2024, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness, I chose to do something hard at the Uptowner. Warmorama – Head …
1 Year Manniversary – from Pool Boy
Beautiful Friday morning 57 degrees. Gave the obligatory warnings and headed to the Football field. Scantron and Triple Shift went KOT’s. Warmups consisted of: SSH’s Armcircles;all types Abe Vigoda’s Grass Grabbers Low Slow Squats Imperial Walkers Slow Merkins Burpees The Thang 100 yard’s back and forth of Bear Crawl, Leap …
All together now! – from Kenna Brah
Mosey to the Rock Pile Warmups with a side of chaos – changing counts, tweaking cadence in order to send waves of disruption unto acceleration. Imperial Walkers Toy Soldiers Surprise!! – 5 Burpees OYO Arm Circles F/B Surprise!! – 5 Burpees OYO Pick out a rock circle with Me PAX …
279th day in Gregorian Calendar – from Pool Boy
On a beautiful Friday morning, some stretched and others headed to the football field. Warmups consisted of Imperial Walkers, Grass grabbers, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Abe Vigodas etc Bogey and I took turns with the beatdown from Monkey Grabbers, Calf Raises to Derkins and Lunges(backwards and Forwards). Too many exercises …
Descend the Ladder con Roca – from Bolt
Warmorama of the usual; Vagabond erroneously thought Kenna Brah had the Q and I’m sure regretted showing up for another of my musically schizophrenic playlists. The Thang: Descending Ladder with a rock (10 reps/exercise down to 9, 8, etc. reps/exercise): Squat (coupon), OH press, Curls, chest press, tricep press. Begin …
Easy as 1, 2, 3 plus an FNG – from Bolt
The pax gathered in the gloom, buzzing with excitement at the mere sight of the JBL speaker; great to see Kotters: Left Coast and Mambi along with Boo Boo who was doing penance for missing Thursday Rucking. Upon giving the disclaimer KnOTS headed their way while we were off to …
Friday morning Football – from Pool Boy
Weather a nice 81 degrees. Quick disclaimer as Knots headed for their workouts and we hit the football field. With it being football season, thought some of us could relive our glory days. WARMUPS of: SSH Grass Grabbers LBC’s Arm circles Peter Parkers Imperial walkers Hillbillies Merkins 7 FOOTBALL WORKOUTS …
Uptowner Old School AMRAPs – from Mahatma
YHC – showed up with 5 minutes, planted the flag AT the Rock Pile as we did pre plandemic. Dropped off his TJ Max bag with Pickleball gear then headed down to the cage arriving just as the seconds ticked off to 5:30. Quick disclaimer as the Knots crew headed …
Tests of Strenth – my Festivus – from Rudy
YHC decided to try out some fitness tests that have been bouncing around in my head. Whenever I think “this is a bad idea, it probably won’t work”, I recall the immortal words of Hawgcycle from years ago – something to the effect of “Only one way to find out.” …